[Warnes, Gregory R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Chris Wills [mailto:cwills@ucsd.edu]
> 
> [...]
> 
> 1)  I cannot figure out how to sort one column in an array, and drag
> the rest of the values that occupy the other columns along with the 
> sorted values in the first column.  What I would like to end up with is 
> an array that is the same size and dimensions as the first array.  When
> I try various configurations of sort, I keep getting vectors instead of 
> the array I started with, and I have not found a way to make sort 
> "bind" other values to the sorted values.

Do this:

	# example data matrix
	datamat <- matrix(rnorm(1000),ncol=20)

	ord <- order(x[,1])
	sortmat <- datamat[ord,]

-Greg


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